After her first year at a Midwestern university, Mya felt pretty good about her life. Going into her sophomore year, she had her own apartment, a large group of friends, and a good job working as a manager for the women's basketball team. She had always loved the sport, but wasn't exactly athletically talented enough to actually play the game herself. Her propensity to fall and trip over the smallest thing was well known among her friends.
Her freshman year had gone rather smoothly and Mya had gotten fairly good grades. School has always come easy to her and she had even made Dean's List first semester. She had decided to change her major between first and second semester and found out that she needed another math class before she could officially change. Knowing that she didn't want to work during the summer, she decided to go to summer school.
On the first day of classes, she left her apartment and headed toward her class on the other side of campus. She didn't expect to see anyone she knew because she knew that none of her friends were on campus for the summer.
About halfway to her class, she spotted a familiar face. Rachel was a friend of a friend. She had met Rachel through Sara, a girl on the basketball team. Mya had gone to breakfast after class with Sara one day in March and they had met Rachel there. Mya knew that Sara associated mainly with athletes, so she figured that Rachel was an athlete of some sort. During their conversation over breakfast, Mya learned that Rachel was on the softball team. After the breakfast though, Mya thought very little of Rachel because she didn't have any reason to. She only saw her once in awhile for the rest of the school year. She attended a few of the softball games with friends and often found her eyes drifting to Rachel out in the field. She figured it was because Rachel's was a familiar face.
During most of the school year, Mya always got an inkling from Sara that she didn't always tell the truth about things, but she took what the girl said at face value most of the time because she trusted her. Mya and Sara had shared some of the same classes and often studied together. On the morning that grades came out, Mya and Sara were talking on the phone and Sara asked Mya to login to the school's grade system for her because she wasn't around a computer and Mya was. She gave her her login information, and Mya gave her the grades. Knowing that the school's email system used the same login information as the grade system and feeling a little mischievous, Mya logged into Sara's email account. There were only a few emails in her inbox, and most of them were old. Feeling emboldened by actually getting in, Mya clicked through the messages to see what they were.
Two specific ones caught her eye. They were from Rachel and Mya was very curious as to their content. As she read through the first, her jaw slowly dropped. The email was an apology to Sara for a fight that Sara and Rachel had been in. The shocking part through was that the letter all but said the two girls were in a relationship. Mya then read through the second email which said about the same thing as the first, but was dated a few weeks later.
Huh, Mya thought as she sat back in her chair. This came as somewhat of a shock to her considering that Sara had told her about relationships she had with guys from high school. But the more she thought about it, the more it made sense. Rachel appeared to Mya to be "playing for the other team." Mya had been around athletes, specifically basketball and softball players, for years and has developed almost a second sense about sexual orientation.
Mya had no problem with homosexuality as she herself realized she was bisexual the previous year. She had always paid just a little bit more attention to girl's bodies then men's. She had even gone as far as to fantasize about a few of the players on the girl's basketball team in high school. Matter of fact, her first female crush had been a friend who was a softball player.
So when Mya saw Rachel walking to class on the first day of summer classes, she was intrigued by her. At the end of the school year, Sara had declared that she was transferring to another university out east to play for the basketball team there. This was before Mya found out about her and Rachel and she had wondered how the two girls had worked things out.
When Rachel saw Mya, she waved and walked over to her.
"Hey, how's it going?" she said.
"Good. What's up?" Mya said.
"You taking classes?" said Rachel.
"Yeah, two. Math and a computer science class. How about you?" she replied.
"Psychology 120. It's boring," Rachel answered.
"Oh, I took that at community college a year ago. If you need any help or anything, let me know. I was pretty good at that stuff," Mya said.
"Cool. Well, I'll see you around, okay?" Rachel said as she headed off to her building.
"See ya!" Mya said.
As Rachel walked away, Mya just kind of stood there watching her. She was happy to see a familiar face after thinking she would have to make all new friends this summer. She also liked that Rachel had smiled at her. Mya also noticed that Rachel's butt was absolutely gorgeous.
Just about every day as Mya was either going to class or leaving class she would see Rachel. They would say hello and maybe exchange a few pleasantries. Mya slowly found that she was looking forward to the times each day that she would see Rachel. She would get butterflies in her stomach just knowing that she would be able to wave at the redheaded girl.
One afternoon Mya decided to go to the computer lab for the athletes. As a manager, she was also entitled to use the facility. She found that the computers were much better in that computer lab than any of the others on campus, probably due to wealthy alumni who donated money for the athletes. She walked into the lab and saw that Rachel was sitting about halfway back and was studying. Her head was down and she didn't see Mya when she walked up to her. She sat down at the computer next to her, despite there being about 30 other computers that were open in the lab. Seeing someone out of the corner of her eye, Rachel looked up from the book she was reading.
"Hey, Mya," she said.
"Hey. What are you reading about?" Mya inquired.
"Personality disorders. We have a test next Monday. Keeping all the different ones straight and remembering the symptoms of each is really hard," Rachel responded.